Huck memorializes Ted Kennedy:
He would be a very fortunate man if his heroic last few months were what future generations remember him most for.
Ed Kilgore at TNR is mad because of what Huck alleges in the runup to that sentence, namely that President Obama wants sick old people like Ted Kennedy to go home and die so the government won’t have to pay for their operations.
All right, but about my favorite sentence. Huck is gifted with words and has a good churchgoer’s streak of cattiness, so I suspect that the remark quoted above was designed to bounce off the one Ted Kennedy memory that his audience holds dear above all others.
Yeah… Well, if I was writing this whole thing…
The moment Teddy died, he would have instantly morphed into a dripping decomposed, skeletal, form… And those in the know would confide to a trusted few, in hushed tones – "It was as though he'd been dead and under water for 40 years…"
I hope to remain anomalous…
I don't think you're anomalous in your views, lots of Teddy haters would sign on to your remarks, but you are unusual in being funny about it.
Then again that fake ad Natl Lampoon did for Volkswagen was funny too, so there is some kind of tradition here.
Jeeze… What movie was it wherein a Chappaquidick gag occurs in which a Rube Goldbergesque series of objects tipping one into another – ends in a model car being pushed off a mantel to fall in a fish bowl…?
Oh, actually I never hated or despised Teddy. I was always just a bit disappointed in him. And I can't help seeing a great horror cliche.
And I still hope to remain anomalous…
Yeah, a Teddy critic, not a Teddy hater. I can relate to that. The movie sounds good, maybe I'll try googling.